It’s World Emoji Day!
17 Jul 2019
LET’S GO GREEN!
World Emoji Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated on 17 July. The day is a global celebration of emoji and is celebrated with emoji events around the world.
Here are some fun facts about emojis:
- There are 2,666 official emoji
- Emoji is a japanese word. If you split the word up, the ‘e’ part means picture and the ‘moji’ part means character. It looks like this in japanese 絵文字
- World Emoji Day takes place on 17th July because the calendar emoji shows the default date of 17th July
- In 2015, the Face with Tears of Joy emoji was named the Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries
- Emojis are a type of ideogram. Ideograms are pictures or symbols that represent an idea or concept
What’s your favourite emoji?
Click here for books about emojis.
![Heart Eyes - emoji Heart Eyes - emoji](https://d3ddkgxe55ca6c.cloudfront.net/assets/t1563266337/a/ea/1b/untitled-design-14-1883557.jpg)
![Sunglasses emoji Sunglasses emoji](https://d3ddkgxe55ca6c.cloudfront.net/assets/t1563266373/a/a3/bd/untitled-design-15-1883573.jpg)
![Crying laughing emoji Crying laughing emoji](https://d3ddkgxe55ca6c.cloudfront.net/assets/t1563266431/a/a0/61/untitled-design-16-1563266427-1883589.jpg)
![Sunglasses emoji Sunglasses emoji](https://d3ddkgxe55ca6c.cloudfront.net/assets/t1563266371/a/03/e1/untitled-design-15-1883567.jpg)